Despotic aggression in pre-moulting painted buntings

Despotic partner choice puts helpers under pressure?

The authors of the target paper (Bergmüller et al., 2007) try o bring order into the many forms ‘cooperation’ takes in the atural world by designing a decision tree, most branches of hich have endpoints well known from the cooperation literaure. The advantage of this exercise is that it helps to classify atural phenomena into the correct pigeonhole and relate it to ther natural phenomena of the...

Generous Leaders and Selfish Underdogs: Pro-Sociality in Despotic Macaques

Actively granting food to a companion is called pro-social behavior and is considered to be part of altruism. Recent findings show that some non-human primates behave pro-socially. However, pro-social behavior is not expected in despotic species, since the steep dominance hierarchy will hamper pro-sociality. We show that some despotic long-tailed macaques do grant others access to food. Moreove...

A Re-Painted Amazon

This paper describes an ongoing project to digitally record, reconstruct and repaint a 2000-year-old painted Roman statue from Herculaneum, Italy. The paper considers the archaeological potential for extremely detailed laser scanning and digital recreation of Roman statuary, and visualisation within a physically accurate context. It focuses on the archaeological significance of the emerging tec...

Painted Aperture for Portraits

Photographers often wish to control the depth of field. In particular, for portrait photography, a shallow depth of field can have dramatic effects on the composition and the feel of the picture. For example, a shallow depth of field can help direct attention to the subject by blurring out objects too close or too far from the camera, such as distracting objects or faces. Also, focusing on an o...

Anti-moulting activity in Brazilian Melia azedarach.